War Short Stories

Nostalgische Lesungen für die Winterzeit. Schon immer hat das Weihnachtsfest einen besonderen Zauber auf die Menschen gewirkt. Sieben gefühlvolle Erzählungen und Gedichte großer Autoren lassen die vergangenen Zeiten nostalgisch aufleben. Gelesen von Gert Heidenreich, Laura Maire, Sabine Kastius u. v. a.

Here are tales about war-time code breaking, cannibalism, and swashbuckling adventure during the times of Bonnie Prince Charlie. They vie with subtler stories, with a more intimate perspective, about the vagaries of human nature, politics, fishing, and poaching, set against the landscape of the lowland Scottish countryside where the author spent his youth.

Alis was a quiet librarian at the campus library of the School of Spells & Magic - that is, until the sword wielding buffoon Cahan had the audacity to battle a dragon in her library! Now she's following him off on some foolhardy adventure. As they try to save the university from the mysterious Formless, she fights an equally important battle - to maintain her self-respect!

Weihnachten bleibt das Fest des Jahres: Familien, die schon Wochen vorher am Rande des Nervenzusammenbruchs balancieren; Pastoren, die alles versuchen, die Weihnachtsgeschichte in die Gegenwart zu retten; aufgedrehte Schwiegereltern, die überraschend zu Besuch kommen – und die geliebten Tanten, die höchst verdient den Spitznamen trio terrible tragen. Sie singen unverwüstlich. Ihre Gläser klingen. Glücklich, wer so viel bucklige Verwandtschaft hat.

In "A Dry, Quiet War", Henry Bone returns home from the War at the End of Time to live out his final years on the rural planet Ferro. But he's not the only veteran to return to this timeline: a group of cybernetically enhanced soldiers - some human, some not - have made the billion-year journey as well. Only they're not looking for peace and quiet.

This short story by Mark Twain was not published until 1916, six years after his death in 1910, because his family considered it too scandalous. After all, what could be more scandalous then attacking religion and war. Narrator John Greenman takes us inside that church as the preacher beseeches God to grant them victory and protect our troops when a stranger appears.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti narrates "The War Prayer", a short story or prose poem by Mark Twain, a scathing indictment of war and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervor as motivations for war.

A race of time travelers seems to want Alibi Jones' time to come to an end in this connected cycle of short stories. The Alibi Jones and the Time War of the Devrizium short anthology features Alibi Jones' adventures with the xenophobic, time-traveling race known as the Devrizium! Featuring "About Time" (adapted from the comic book short story); "Remember Two Things"; "Memory, Yet Green"; and "The Last Battle".

The scene is a traditional English garden located in the splendour of the English countryside. The plants and wildlife have an ability to communicate with each other which the humans who reside in the house are totally unaware of. The rulers of the garden are the climbing roses who have a status of aristocracy which the other plants obey and surrender to them.

NYPD criminal profiler Catherine Farrows knew her life would change forever when she committed herself to covert billionaire Thomas Ambrose - and his violent vigilante alter ego, the Black Mask Killer. Together they work to protect the children of New York City and abroad from the predations of the Ganymede Society, a secret cabal of one-percenters who sexually exploit and murder children. Morally-conflicted Catherine has never had to wrestle with her conscience and convictions so much in her life.

Debutante Peyton Fuller's life consists of friends, parties, and waiting for her beau to propose to her. With little knowledge of politics and fighting, her cosseted world changes overnight as soldiers stream into Harrisburg to prepare for a war between the states. As they march past her door, she catches the eye of one soldier who makes her question everything.

Eigentlich war mir von Null an langweilig. Auch die Frau mit den roten Haaren, meine Mutter, stellte fest, bevor sie ins Kuckucksnest kam und somit aus meinem Kleinkinderleben verschwunden war.

Allo scoppio della Grande Guerra Marco Leccio decide di arruolarsi. Si presenta così alla leva con tanto di divisa da garibaldino. Le motivazioni alla base del suo gesto sono politiche e sentimentali: vuole partecipare alla liberazione delle terre irredente interrotta a Bezzecca, ma vuole anche andare al fronte insieme a suo figlio.

Gaetano Marino interpreta "La camera in attesa", classica novella di Pirandello incentrata sul patetismo degli affetti familiari sullo sfondo della Grande Guerra.

هذه المجموعة تقدم مشاهدات من حروب مختلفة كان جيل الكاتب إما شاهداً عليها وضحية لها، أو خاض غمارها. وتمتد من هزيمة حزيران التي تم تجميلها بتسميتها "النكسة"، مروراً بكل الحروب الأخرى التي لم تنتهِ بالحرب الأخيرة الدائرة رحاها الآن.

Siegfried Lenz' erste Kurzgeschichtensammlung besticht durch seine typisch erfrischende Erzählweise. Der Schauplatz der zwanzig Erzählungen sind die idyllischen Masuren. In der Geschichte Duell in kurzem Schafspelz beispielsweise treffen sich auf einem schmalen Waldweg zwei Pferdeschlitten. Die sturen Fahrer sehen nicht ein, dem jeweils anderen Platz zu machen und so hängen sie monatelang an der gleichen Stelle fest. Diese und weitere absurd komische Erzählungen versprechen Hörspaß der Extraklasse.

Before he became an archmage to topple an empire, before he met the legendary Eradicator Xal, Saghir was born a free ratkin, living on the streets of Gateway, a perilous desert city at the edge of the Blasted Lands. Each month, the free laborers must pay their tithe in coin, or blood. Every ratkin in Saghir's tribe searches for something of value, lest their whole people be enslaved. Ruthless Corax, carnivorous scarabs, and worse infest the city. There are countless ways for a rat to die, and all it takes is one mistake. There are no second chances.

This story is from The Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (His Last Bow) collection. Further adventures by the master of observation and deduction, as faithfully recounted by his companion and greatest admirer, Dr. Watson. "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans," "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax", and "The Adventure of the Dying Detective" are among the stories. David Timson's award-winning performances continue with this series.

Il racconto è un viaggio attraverso gli anni antichi, I Guerra mondiale, II Guerra, i partigiani, i migranti, un viaggio dell'esistenza sempre attuale con la famiglia, dolce amaro come la vita.

Als ich das Ofenhückerl war, Erzählung von Peter Rosegger: Warum es so frostig wird heutzutage? Warum wir gefroren sind? Weil wir keinen ordentlichen Ofen mehr bauen können. Allen Respekt vor den schwedischen und russischen Öfen, gar zierlich sind sie und ein Zimmerschmuck und alles Mögliche, aber so recht gemütlich? So recht gemütlich ist nur der große, breite, behäbige Kachelofen mit seinen grünen oder braunen Augenreihen, mit seinem Holzgeländer und seiner Ofenbank. Die Ofenbank, wo die Kindheit und das Alter hocken, das Enkelein und die Großmutter – und die alten Märchen!